Praise the Lord for this Wednesday. We will meet for our Wednesday Gathering at 6 PM for fellowship and study followed by choir practice at 7:30 PM. Spring is almost here. We can feel it in the air we can see it in the trees and the snow melt. We are three weeks away from celebrating Glorious Easter, the event of New Life, the event of Resurrection and eternal hope.
I was looking at and pondering Psalm 22, the way it concludes. (Psalms 22:30-31)
Posterity shall serve him;
men shall tell of the Lord to the
coming generation,
and proclaim his deliverance to a
people yet unborn,
that he has wrought it.
Somewhere along the way I heard a preacher tell a story of a woman who had reached the end of her rope. Her husband was ill and lost his job. There were financial reverses that caused them to lose their home. There were five children to feed and clothe. She tried to find employment to help make ends meet, but the situation continued to deteriorate. She become so desperate that one day, having lost all hope, she took her five-year-old daughter into the bedroom. She carefully stuffed the windows with rags and newspapers. Then she turned on the gas heater without lighting it. She put her arm around her little daughter as they laid together across the bed. She could hear the gas escaping but she also heard another noise. She'd forgotten to turn off the radio. Someone was singing; it was an old hymn, "Oh what peace we often forfeit, Oh what needless pain we bear, All because we do not carry, Everything to God in prayer."
The woman realized her tragic mistake. She got up, turned off the gas, opened the windows. She said, "I began to pray. I did not pray for help. I prayed a prayer of gratitude to God. I thanked him for my life. I thanked him for our five children; and I made a promise that I would never forget my faith again. So far, I have kept that promise."
Indeed our disappoints are our Lord's appointments. Blessed be His Name."To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:" Colo 1:27
In Christ,
Brown .
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